Photo Detectives

Can someone please tell me what happened between the photo on the left and the one on the right?

According to the Library of Congress, they were both taken the same day.

18 Comments

  1. The one on the right appears to have some 5 o’clock shadow. They do look like the same woman, but the lighting is different. The older looking photo on the right has less lighting, which would expose her wrinkles more. Plus, in the younger looking photo on the left, she’s smiling, which would tighten her skin. The one on the right she’s frowning or relaxed, and her eyes are open more. The position of the jaw is different. The one on the left is jutting out farther. I think overall, the difference in lighting produced much of the effect.

    Photographers who know what they’re doing can do impressive things.

  2. The trick is that she’s got the reverse aging disease and the first picture was taken second.

    But seriously…
    makeup
    verses
    no makeup

    Simple. She’s wearing makeup on the first photo. No makeup on the second.

  3. This is easy… back in the 60’s when I was a little kid, my Dad was a photographer. He did a lot of Black and White work then. Remember “The Camera doesn’t Lie” was a familiar saying in the dark room. He made it a practice to “Touch Up” some of the photo’s the customers paid big bucks for. This was done on the finished photo with an oil paint kit made just for the process. So I suspect it’s not two separate photo’s, but the same photo with one touched up by a pro…

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